The problem is that gcc cannot find a match for -lXvBAW because of this missing symbolic link. I am working on some fixes to ati-drivers and the xvba stuff for Funtoo Linux and will push my fixes upstream to Gentoo Linux so that you guys can benefit when I'm done.

The problem is that gcc cannot find a match for -lXvBAW because of this missing symbolic link. I am working on some fixes to ati-drivers and the xvba stuff for Funtoo Linux and will push my fixes upstream to Gentoo Linux so that you guys can benefit when I'm done.

You're welcome - I have a patch available for ati-drivers-12.11_beta11 from xorg overlay that fixes several issues and makes XVBA integration more seamless (USE="vaapi" emerge ati-drivers takes care of it.) This should make VAAPI support pretty seamless for ATI users. I have submitted it upstream to Gentoo land and you can view/follow the Gentoo bug report here:

Yes, you need that header from xvba-sdk. The patch I submitted to gentoo will install that header for you so you don't need to worry about it. If you aren't using my patch, then you will need to manually download it from here:

Find the header in there, copy it to /usr/include, ensure you have your symlinks fixed as described above, and then xvba-video will merge. If/when my patch is applied to Gentoo's ati-drivers, then this will all be seamless and will just work.